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The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a reprimand to ACRO Criminal Records Office (ACRO) after cyber security failings left the personal data of up to ten thousand people potentially exposed. The ICO’s investigation found that between August 2022 and March 2023, a hacker gained unauthorised access to ACRO’s website and content management system (CMS). The attacker wa...

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Many organisations are seeing a massive increase in AI generated Freedom of Information requests and GDPR Subject Access Requests (SARs). For example, Lincolnshire County Council received almost 2000 FOI requests in the last financial year; an increase of 18% compared to the previous year. No doubt the same is the case for SARs.  AI has democratised and powered access to informa...

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Rogue employees accessing personal data for their own gain, or just morbid curiosity, is a real issue for organisations, especially in the public sector, who hold vast databases of information about service users. In May, the medical director of Nottingham University Hospitals issued a public apology after staff inappropriately accessed the medical records of victims of the Not...

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For the past few years, legal, compliance and data protection professionals have largely focused on the risks associated with deploying large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude. The focus is now expanding to agentic AI, defined by IBM as:  “…an artificial intelligence system that can accomplish a specific goal with limited supervision. It consists of AI agents – m...

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The biggest data protection challenges facing organisations do not stem solely from cyber-attacks or AI deployment; they also arise from employees. Sometimes it’s an innocent mistake; an email sent to the wrong person, confidential information shared inadvertently or a document uploaded to the wrong system. In other cases, the issues are more serious; employees accessing informa...

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